BELGRADE (Serbia), June 2 (SeeNews) – China's Shandong Hi-Speed Group (SDHS) plans to complete the construction of the Valjevo-Lajkovac high-speed road in central Serbia by November 2022, executive director Meng Yang said.
The construction of the road will be completed more than a year ahead of schedule, Yang said during a meeting with Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic on Tuesday in Belgrade, the president's office said in a press release.
During the meeting, SDHS expressed interest in the projects for the construction of the Belgrade-Zrenjanin motorway and Zrenjanin-Novi Sad high-speed road, as well as bypass roads in Gornji Milanovac, Pozega and Uzice, according to the press release.
Serbia and with SDHS signed in June 2020 a 158 million euro ($193 million) agreement for the construction of the Valjevo-Lajkovac 18.3 km high-speed road. The road will link Valjevo to Milos Veliki motorway, part of European transport Corridor XI, a ferry/motorway corridor linking Italy's Bari to Romania's Bucharest via Montenegro's Bar port and Serbia's Belgrade.
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